Tools and Wonderfuls

Increasing the power of your farm tools come from attaching rocks, called
Wonderful Stones, to the tool's available stone slots. Each tool will
have a certain number of slots available to insert stones into.
You will earn Wonderfuls by winning festivals,
making with your kitchen, reaching the 255th floor of the mine on Volcano
Island, or buying them from Chen's shop. You might even get a Wonderful
on your wedding anniversary.

The seven colors of Wonderful Stones will increase the power of
your tools in different ways. You can attach stones of the same color for
a stronger affect, or even mix and match stones to create a tool with
different benefits compared to the standard versions.

The basic tools you start with (hammer, axe, hoe, sickle, and watering can)
do
not have slots available to have any Wonderful Stone attached.
If you want to attach stones then
you will have to buy new tools from Gannon. Mirabelle sells the milker, sheers,
and brush tools at her animal shop. The Fishing Pole does not have any slots
to insert Wonderfuls into.

Red

Orange

Yellow

Green

Blue

Indigo

Purple

Axe

Increase the chopping range by 1 length square

Receive more lumber when chopping

Chop stumps

Use 1 less STA

Increase the chopping range by 2 width squares

Add 5 additional stone slots

Earn 2 G per tool use

Hammer

Increase the smashing range by 1 length square

Receive more Material Stone, ore, and jewels when smashing rocks

Smash larger stones (3 needed for full power up)

Use 1 less STA

Increase the smashing range by 2 width squares

Add 5 additional stone slots

Earn 2 G per tool use

Hoe

Increase the till range by 1 length square

Receive more items if you till soil inside the mine

Till the rice paddy

Use 1 less STA

Increase the till range by 2 width squares

Add 5 additional stone slots

Earn 2 G per tool use

Sickle

Increase the cutting range by 1 length square

Receive more produce when cutting (fodder, rice, etc.)

Harvest rice, wheat, etc.

Use 1 less STA

Increase the cutting range by 2 width squares

Add 5 additional stone slots

Earn 2 G per tool use

Watering Can

Increase the watering range by 1 length square

Hold 50 more units of water

Give a square of soil more water

Use 1 less STA

Increase the watering range by 2 width squares

Add 5 additional stone slots

Earn 2 G per tool use

Brush

Increase the brush range by 1 length square

Lowers animal stress points

Earn more love points

Use 1 less STA

Increase the brush range by 2 width squares

Add 5 additional stone slots

Earn 2 G per tool use

Milker

Increase the milker range by 1 length square

Receive more milk

Earn more love points

Use 1 less STA

Increase the milking range by 2 width squares

Add 5 additional stone slots

Earn 2 G per tool use

Sheers

Increase the sheer range by 1 length square

Receive more wool

Earn move love points

Use 1 less STA

Increase the sheer range by 2 width squares

Add 5 additional stone slots

Earn 2 G per tool use

The most standard example is the watering can and the need to power it up
to water a 3x3 square of crops. The basic watering can can only water 1 crop
at a time. To increase its power, you will have to attach 1 Blue Wonderful
(for +2 width range) and 2 Red Wonderfuls (for +1 and +1 length range). The details
on the Watering Can will give you an area of 3x3.

0 Blue Wonderful0 Red Wonderful

1 Blue Wonderful0 Red Wonderful

1 Blue Wonderful1 Red Wonderful

1 Blue Wonderful2 Red Wonderful

Depending on the tool you're equipping, there's a maximum number of Wonderfuls you can attach:

Red Wonderfuls: 8 maximum per tool

Orange Wonderfuls: 3 on the Brush, 5 on the Watering Can, and 4 for all other tools

Yellow Wonderfuls: 1 on the Sickle and Hoe, 5 on the Watering Can, 7 on the Hammer and Axe, and 10 for the Brush, Milker, and Sheers

Green Wonderfuls: 2 maximum per tool

Blue Wonderfuls: 9 maximum per tool

Purple Wonderfuls: 30 maximum per tool

Indigo Wonderfuls: 5 maximum per tool

How To Get Wonderfuls

There are a few different ways you can get Wonderfuls for your tools.

Winning Festivals

The easiest way is to simply win festivals. If you are the festival champion, you will
be rewarded with a Wonderful Stone. If you are not the festival winner, you will win
Wonderful Chips instead, which is only 1/7th of one Wonderful. You can combine 7
Wonderful Chips and go to Charlie's shop to create 1 Purple Wonderful.

The color of stone you receive from the festival is determined by the
weather that occurs two days after the festival AND the day of the week the festival
took place. It is not based on your Farm Degree points like in Island of Happiness:

The festival was on a:Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu

Weather

Stone

Sunny

Yellow

Clear

Red

Cloudy

Blue

Drizzly

Green

Rainy

Orange

Snowy

Purple

Stormy

Indigo

The festival was on a:Fri, Sat, Sun

Weather

Stone

Sunny

Blue

Clear

Yellow

Cloudy

Orange

Drizzly

Red

Rainy

Purple

Snowy

Indigo

Stormy

Green

For example, if you were the winner of the Summer 7 chicken festival that took place on a Tuesday, and the
weather on the 9th ended up being a hurricane, then on the 7th you would of been rewarded with an Indigo Wonderful.

The day's weather is set 7 days in advance, so the weather for the 2nd day after the festival is set
5 days before the festival; in the case of the Chicken Festival above, it would be set starting on
Summer 2 for the Wonderful's weather on Summer 9.

You may be thinking "I'll just save my game on the 2nd and skip ahead to the 9th to see
what color I get", but that won't work. Once you hit the 9th, the weather may be different than
what you anticipate it to be:

Using the previous example, lets say you saved your game on the 2nd and skipped ahead to the
9th to see that the weather was going to be Cloudy. This means that you'll win a Blue Wonderful if
you are the Chicken Festival champion. So you reload to the 2nd and play the game like normal,
win the Chicken Festival, but end up with a Yellow Wonderful instead! Since the weather is set
7 days in advance, the weather for the 9th has changed because you reloaded back to the 2nd. The
weather from the 2nd to the 8th will be the same, but the weather on the 9th changed. Your
Cloudy day ended up being Sunny, which rewards you with a Yellow Wonderful instead of a Blue.

On the other hand, if you had saved your game on the 3rd and then skipped forward to the 9th to see
your Cloudy day, when you reload your game back to the 3rd and play through, you will win
a Blue Wonderful on the 7th. But no matter what you do, you are guaranteed to get a Blue
Wonderful. You can't change the weather on the 9th because it is only 6 days between the 3rd
and the 9th.

So basically, changing the weather to get a specific color Wonderful does
not work. The closest thing you can do is save 5 days before a festival, play through
the game without saving, and if you're the winner and you don't get the color you want,
reload back those 5 days and try to go through it again. This will take a lot of save/reload
(and time) if you're hoping to get a specific color.

Using Your Kitchen

You can cook up some Wonderfuls using your kitchen, but you need to know the recipes from Haila
at the Cafe. To learn the recipes, you need to give her a colored book, which is
another high-level cooking recipe. To make the primary Black Book, you need to make
the highest level dish for each of the cooking categories (Salads, Soup/Drink, Appetizer, Main,
and Dessert). Those high level dishes also require a combination
of other cooking dishes.

So lets say you want to make an Orange Wonderful. The ingredients you need to combine are:

It takes a lot of work just to make a Wonderful with your kitchen. You also need to know the recipes
in advance to cooking them, so you have to make multiple Black Books to get the Orange Book recipe,
then an Orange Book to give to Haila to learn the Orange Wonderful Recipe.

The 255th Floor Of The Mine

If you manage to reach the bottom floor of the mine on Volcano Island, you will be rewarded
with a Wonderful. The color you receive is based off of the same table used for rewarding
a Wonderful on a festival day, but you don't have to actually win anything to receive the
stone. If you reach floor 255 on a Saturday and the following Monday is a Cloudy day, you'll
receive a Blue Wonderful.

It seems pretty simple, but the challenges is the fact that you can't even reach the
bottom floor of the mine until you have earned over 30,000
Mining Degree points. Earning such a large number of degree points will take you
a long time.

Buy From Chen's Store

At the beginning of the game, Chen will have a few Wonderfuls for sale to help
you start up your farm. You can buy a Red Wonderful and Blue Wonderful for 5000 G each,
and a Yellow Wonderful for 4000 G.

Chen also sells Wonderfuls during the Winter season. Check his shop every day to see
if he has a Wonderful Stone or a Wonderful Chip for sale. After you buy a stone or chip from
his shop, another won't appear for at least 3 days. If you are looking for a specific color
of stone, you can adjust your Farm Degree to get one to appear, but it is rather
complicated and awkward to do.

Getting the Wonderfuls to appear in Winter has to do with the last 2 digits of certain Farm Degree
categories (Mining Degree, Fishing Degree, Crops Degree, and Cooking Degree) and then
adjusting either your Mining, Other, or Animal Degrees to get specific colors. Very
complicated! You can find more information on the How To Get Wonderfuls In
Winter topic on the message forum.

Your Wedding Anniversary

After you are married, celebrate your yearly wedding anniversary by going inside of your
farm house after 6:00 pm. If your spouse has at least 30,000 fp (5 hearts) then he/she will
give you a Wonderful Stone. The stone color you receive is based on the weather that occurs
2 days after your wedding anniversary, just like it is with the festivals and the bottom
of the mine.